سِرَاطٌ
Root: سرط
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سِرَاطٌ
A road, or way: or a conspicuous road or way; so called because he who goes away on it disappears like food that is swallowed; i. q.
صِرَاطٌ, which is of the dial. of the early Kureysh, and is the more approved, on account of the mutual resemblance [of the ص and ط], though the former is the original; and زِرَاطٌ; for the saying that the pronunciation with the pure ز is a mistake, is [itself] a mistake: [ISd says,] As mentions the reading الزِّرَاط, with the pure ز; but this is a mistake; for he only heard the resemblance, and imagined it to be ز; and As was not a grammarian, that he should be trusted in this matter: this is [itself, however,] a mistake; for AA is related to have read الزّراط, and the same is related of Hamzeh, by Ks. One says also, هُوَ فِى
دِينِهِ عَلَى سِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ
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